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She needed a moo-sage. Utilizing implements isn’t limited to primates and brainiac birds. A brown cow named Veronika was documented using tools with impressive skill for the first time ever, ...

Far Side fans might recall a classic 1982 cartoon called “Cow Tools,” featuring a cow standing next to a jumble of strange objects—the joke being that cows don’t use tools. That’s why a pet Swiss ...

A few years ago, during a taxi ride, the driver described to me how a pig had transformed his life. A childhood with dogs taught him what to expect from animals, yet he was unprepared for the pig he ...

Cows itch, just like us. They rub their rumps against trees and fences. Some farmers even put out bristled posts so cattle can scratch themselves. But Veronika the cow takes things into her own hands.

In 1982, cartoonist Gary Larson published a now-iconic "Far Side" comic titled "Cow Tools." In it, a cow stands proudly beside a jumble of bizarre, useless objects that are "tools" in name only. The ...

A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. By Emily Anthes For a cow, Veronika has had what might ...

In news that is sure to delight fans of a certain Gary Larson cartoon turned meme about the limitations of bovine cognition, cow tools are real. Larson’s 1982 comic for his series The Far Side showed ...

When Kat Betsy became executive director of Cowtown S.K.A.T.E. in August, she was just beginning to understand what it meant to truly be a Skateboard Angel. “(When you make) a $60 donation (to ...

The Town, a new Turkish thriller on Netflix, suffers from a basic problem: It’s main characters are either stupid, willfully ignorant, or both. Why do we think that? Well, what would you think if you ...

SHANGHAI—For Western companies in China, a new reality has set in: The easy money is gone and competition is only getting fiercer. As China’s economic growth has slowed in recent years, consumers have ...

In this Community Spotlight segment, Shauna Curry from Stewardson's Christmas in a One Cow Town sits down with WCIA's Mitchell Rife to talk about an upcoming event this month to put you in the holiday ...